Get to know Payden
Please describe the INR-funded or affiliated project(s) you are currently working on?
ORBIC data management
What are your primary responsibilities/roles of your research position?
Evaluate rare species data and update into INR's rare species database; make PDFs and Word docs accessible to meet federal accessibility guidelines; conducting field surveys
What have you learned or hope to learn from this experience? Have you gained any new skills?
I want to gain more technical skills and experience with GIS, Biotics, and Field surveying
What are your academic and/or career aspirations after graduation?
I hope to work in the environmental field, in a position that allows for a combination of admin work/data entry as well as fieldwork.
What's your favorite way to use or interact with the natural world?
I love to be out on the water in my kayak.